rouleau

American  

[roo-loh] / ruˈloʊ /

noun

plural

rouleaux, rouleaus

1. a roll or strip of something, as trimming on a hat brim.

2. a stack or roll of coins put up in cylindrical form in a paper wrapping.

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rouleau British  

/ ˈruːləʊ /

noun

1. a roll of paper containing coins

2. (often plural) a roll of ribbon

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Etymology

Origin of rouleau

1685–95; < French; Middle French rolel, diminutive of role roll

Example Sentences

It was le rouleau compresseur �the "steamroller" as Fignol�'s Mouvement Ouvrier Paysan was popularly called �trying to intimidate the Assembly into voting for its candidate.

From Time Magazine Archive

Smoothly maneuvering what he called his rouleau compresseur, a human steam roller of sweating supporters, Fignole pressured the National Assembly as it tried to choose between a "revolutionary" or a "constitutional" successor to the presidency.

From Time Magazine Archive

The manager immediately offered a rouleau of a thousand francs, which, in the heat of play, he thoughtlessly accepted, and also lost.

From The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims Volume II (of II) by Steinmetz, Andrew

So saying he took up the rouleau of gold he had given to Marguerite and departed.

From International Weekly Miscellany — Volume 1, No. 2, July 8, 1850 by Various

"I remember now, it was a rouleau of fifty that I paid away to Layton was running in my head."

From One Of Them by Lever, Charles James